Burglars drove a Jeep through the entrance of a Cabela’s store in Thornton and stole more than 50 guns, authorities say.

The burglars crashed a white Jeep Cherokee that had been stolen in Edgewater into the entrance of the Cabela’s at 14050 Lincoln St. at 2:10 a.m. Monday, according to a news release by officer Victor Avila of the Thornton Police Department.

While officers were responding to the burglary call, the dispatcher called back and said they had received several additional alarms coming from firearm display counters.

When they arrived, police found the Jeep and set up a perimeter, the news release says. The burglars had already escaped.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.

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